Mordant - Memento Mori (2004)

   Just as many newer bands of the Swedish underground sene, Mordant also desired to reinterpret the sound of the '80s by their own taste. Though the band existed since a while already, it took long until their first full-lenght release.
    Mordant focused on a raw and primitive rehearsal sound of blackening thrash metal, that could be imagined as a direct next step after Venom. Their second demo "Suicide Slaughter" was already widely distributed, so it gave a hint for the audience what could be expected from the band. The same line they continued on "Memento Mori", that included plenty of catchy themes too that referred to classical heavy metal. On the side of the music style, the lyrical concept also took the same direction by directly satanic lyrics. These are the same simple and primitive like the music, and may sound immature. But the main concept is unified like that, and sounds enough authentic if a band wants to summon the feeling of the '80s. Bands who sympathized with the Dark Lord, just sounded like that and even though they couldn't be taken seriously, their music had it's overwhelming feeling by it's simplicity. "Memento Mori" is able to cause enjoyable moments for the fans of dark '80s metal nostalgia.